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Paradise chords by Everly Brothers


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                               Paradise
written by John Prine for the Everly brothers birthplace, Brownie KY.
Recorded by THE EVERLY BROTHERS
From the album Pass the Chicken and Listen, 1971
submitted by Shawn Wells     rainmakr@gte.net

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D                                 G               D
When I was a child my family would travel
                                                         A7               D
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
                                                          G     D
And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered
                                     A7                D
So many times that my memories are worn

CHORUS
D                                                        G              D
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County
                                                A7         D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
                                                    G      D
Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking
                                            A7       D
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away


D                                              G                    D
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river
                                                   A7         D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
                                                               G
     D
Where the air smelt like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols
                                         A7              D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

REPEAT CHORUS
D                                                      G
D
Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel
                                                    A7                D
And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land
                                                   G               D
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
                                                   A7            D
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man


REPEAT CHORUS
D                                           G                     D
When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
                                           A7           D
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
                                             G        D
I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting
                                        A7         D
Just five miles away from wherever I am

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